The Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research
Theatre stripped to its essence: intimate, bold, and deeply human.
Dover
A raw, poetic reckoning between a mother, a daughter, and the haunting cost of love.
Brooklyn, NY, US
About Dover
Dover is a taut, darkly lyrical drama about an acclaimed filmmaker and her estranged daughter, thrown together for a weekend in the countryside as a storm rolls in. What begins as a familiar dance of avoidance and veiled jabs spirals into a reckoning about art, memory, motherhood, and the violence we inherit from those we love.
Dover is a taut, darkly lyrical drama about an acclaimed filmmaker and her estranged daughter, thrown together for a weekend in the countryside as a storm rolls in. What begins as a familiar dance of avoidance and veiled jabs spirals into a reckoning about art, memory, motherhood, and the violence we inherit from those we love.
Set against a backdrop of rain, Bach, and buried grief, Dover is a meditation on legacy and the cost of genius, laced with biting wit and emotional fury. As boundaries blur between past and present, reality and art, mother and daughter circle each other in search of something like forgiveness, or at least recognition. When a visiting biographer arrives to probe Anna’s career, he becomes an unwitting catalyst in their unraveling, forcing long buried truths to the surface.
What you're helping us cover
Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research Rent
This is the third staging of Dover, a quiet, deeply felt play being developed in repertory at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research. BCTR is our creative home, and covering rent ($6,000 a month) is essential to keeping this space alive. Your support helps us maintain a home for independent theater in New York, where artists can take risks, grow work over time, and reach an audience.
Actor Stipends
Our actors are committing time, energy, and care to this emotionally demanding piece. Though Dover is modest in scale, we believe in compensating artists fairly for their work. Your contribution goes directly toward paying them with respect and dignity.
Additional Production Costs
While Dover doesn’t require elaborate sets or costumes, we do have basic production needs: simple lighting, sound, and marketing support to share the work with the community. Every dollar helps us meet those needs and keep this play accessible, alive, and evolving.
Our Bare Minimum Goal: $5,000
This is the minimum we need to make the production possible. Anything beyond that goes toward sustaining the theater and giving our artists what they deserve. Your support keeps this work going.
Show opens mid May
NYC Production Team
NYC Production Team
Written & Directed by Matthew Gasda
Produced by Jacob Donaldson
Produced by Jacob Donaldson
Cast
Charlotte - Rachel Relstab
Anna - Meg MacCary
Eric - George Olesky
Rewards
Thank you!
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Thank you for supporting Indie Theatre
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One VIP Seat
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One front row ticket to Dover at BCTR.
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Signed Dimes Collection + 2 Tickets
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A signed copy of Dimes Square and Other Plays by Matthew Gasda, plus two tickets to Dover. Pick up at the show or have it mailed if you can't attend.
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Private Class with Matt & George
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A private 60 minute playwriting or acting session with Matthew Gasda and George Olesky (Eric in Dover), in person or on Zoom
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Associate Producer Credit
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Get your name in the program as an Associate Producer and receive two front row tickets to Dover. Includes a signed thank you from the cast and access to a final rehearsal, if you'd like to see how the work comes together.
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Executive Producer Credit
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Your name will appear prominently as an Executive Producer in the program and all promotional materials. You’ll receive two tickets to the performance of your choice, a signed thank you from the cast, and the chance to be part of the process: join a rehearsal, give input on the production, or simply sit in and observe how the work is made. Your support helps sustain the theater and the artists who bring it to life - we're deeply grateful.
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